Nature Publishing Group announces open access options for Japanese titles - September 19, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced an increase in open access options for its Japanese titles from September 2011. NPG Asia Materials is now receiving submissions as part of its re-launch as an online only, open access journal in January 2012. In addition,… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry’s new flagship journal wins ALPSP Award for Best New Journal - September 19, 2011
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new flagship journal Chemical Science has won the ALPSP Award for Best New Journal. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) praised Chemical Science for its relevance and quality. The award is open… Read More
EBSCO predicts up to 6 percent increase in publisher prices for libraries - September 19, 2011
Publishing services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it expects the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2012 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent. Since the last publication of this report a year… Read More
Amazon Web Services obtains FISMA Moderate Authorization and Accreditation - September 19, 2011
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), part of US-based online retailer Amazon.com, has received Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Authorization and Accreditation from the US General Services Administration. FISMA requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an information security system for its data and… Read More
Ithaka S+R announces Research Support Services for Scholars programme - September 19, 2011
Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of Ithaka, has announced a new programme, Research Support Services for Scholars. This programme will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically needed research about the evolving behaviour and needs of scholars to the information… Read More
Elsevier names Dr. Nick Benton as new Editor-in-Chief for Computer Languages, Systems & Structures journal - September 19, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nick Benton of Microsoft Research as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computer Languages, Systems & Structures. Dr. Benton succeeds Professor Bala Kalyanasundaram of Georgetown University. Computer Languages, Systems & Structures publishes papers on programming languages. Dr.… Read More
